Impact of Women's Empowerment Program for Abused Pregnant Women

Impact of Women's Empowerment Program for Abused Pregnant Women: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Although domestic violence is recognized as major threat in pregnancy, there is no intervention has been developed or test to support women in India. To evaluate the effect of women's empowerment program administered to abused women in order to reduce domestic abuse, improving health status and safety behavior.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Abuse Physical Battered Woman Syndrome
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Empowerment Program

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 76
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• India
  • Rajasthan
    • Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 302019
      • NMP Medical Research Institute

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 35 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: Female

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• at least 18 years of age,
• victims of intimate partner violence, and
• willing to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

• women whose abuser was not their intimate partner or
• who were unable to consent

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Empowerment program; The hour intervention, delivered over a 11-week period, consisted of an empowerment and additional components adapted from Freedom program run to support domestic abused women.	Behavioral: Empowerment Program
No Intervention: Control group; Standard care, which was routine check ups and care provided by health care professionals.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Quality of life(Sf-36)	Five Months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Post natal depression	5 months

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Domestic Violence Inventory and safety seeking behavior	5 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Macmillan Research Group UK
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Neha Sharma, PhD, Macmillan research group

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: January 1, 2013
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 1, 2013
• Study Completion (Actual): August 1, 2013

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 28, 2013
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 28, 2013
• First Posted (Estimate): September 2, 2013

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): September 2, 2013
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 28, 2013
• Last Verified: August 1, 2013

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: Mac/NMP 0912